The Global Mandate of Systemic Resilience Capacity Accounting

Systemic Resilience Capacity Accounting (SRCA) describes the emergent global economic and regulatory framework that quantifies the functional robustness of planetary biomes and engineered systems against coupled stressors. As anthropogenic climate forcing, accelerated biodiversity loss, and increasing pathogen variability push multiple Earth systems toward non-linear tipping points, traditional risk assessment models based on single or dual variables have proven inadequate for predicting cascading failure. SRCA formalizes the recognition that stability is no longer maintained by optimizing efficiency across isolated domains (e.g., maximizing carbon capture yield) but by ensuring functional redundancy and complexity—the capacity of a system to maintain core function despite simultaneous shocks across multiple vectors. This paradigm shift establishes systemic resilience itself as the primary, quantifiable global limiting factor and ultimate economic utility.